As it continues to tick off items from its decommissioning list, a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel in the Timor Sea is severing its bonds with two oilfields off the coast of Australia. To this end, a new milestone has been reached in its progress, enabling it to remove the possibility of oil leakage.

The Department of Industry, Science, Energy & Resources (DISER) and its contractors, on behalf of the Australian government, are set on ensuring the safe, efficient, and responsible decommissioning of the FPSO Northern Endeavour, which has been stationed at the Corallina and Laminaria oilfields about 550 kilometers northwest of Darwin in the Timor Sea for more than two decades.